Meanwhile on the opposite coast.The City and County of San Francisco District 6 Sup. Chris Daly steps forward to introduce File No. 060156, "Resolution calling for a full investigation, impeachment or resignation of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney."
So why the big deal?
If the resolution is passed, the City and County of San Francisco will probably take the lead calling for investigation and impeachment. With national media already focusing on The City for the centennial celebration of the Great Quake of 1906, it will be next to impossible to disassociate the stories in readers' minds.
The proposed resolution will direct the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors to send copies of the resolution, if and when it passes, to statewide elected officials including Representative Nancy Pelosi and Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, to the California Democratic Party, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and all members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Additionally, Sup. Daly's proposed resolution "requests that Congress demand a full investigation" of the alleged charges which include "waging an unnecessary war in Iraq," that the administration "has authorized torture," that Bush "had disregarded his Presidential duty" regarding the response to Hurricane Katrina, and that Bush "recently admitted to and defended his administration's practice of ordering the secret surveillance of American citizens."
Next question: will the resolution pass? In the most progressive city on the planet, try to imagine if any of the other supervisors will offer a dissenting opinion. We would suffer shock, to say the least; however, without trying to appear pessimistic, I will await discussion of Agenda Item 44 and will attempt to be in the chamber during the vote on the proposed resolution.
But let's skip through the preliminary. Six months ago if you had asked me whether or not Bush and Cheney would ever face impeachment, I would have responded "probably not." But during the past six months we have seen the indictment of Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and the breaking news that the National Security Agency (NSA) conducted wiretaps, without obtaining warrants, on American citizens, among other stories.
afterdowningstreet.org |
